I am really starting to take an interest in Philosophy.
Can anyone post any Famous quotes?
Sorry that didn't really make since.
2007-08-29 20:22:37 · 8 answers · asked by Just Brandon 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever
2007-08-29 21:13:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The term philosophy derives from a combination of the Greek words philos meaning love and sophia meaning wisdom. What philosophy is, or should be, is itself a philosophical question that philosophers have understood and treated differently through the ages.
2007-08-30 04:16:57 · answer #2 · answered by naumi 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I call these the Five Enlightenments.
The only thing of which we may be certain...
...is the possibility of error. (Socrates)
Everything is fire, but there is a logic to the flame. (Heraclitis)
The simplest explaination, that explains everything is most likely true. (Ockham)
Life has a nature, not a meaning. The nature of life is to collect resources, reproduce, and defend itself. (Quill)
Any system, such as life, in the abscence of intellegent design, may evolve through the process of random mutation and natural selection. (Darwin)
2007-08-30 03:52:08 · answer #3 · answered by Phoenix Quill 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The brave put their fears aside and go forward. Sometimes to their deaths, but always to victory.
A saying of the Kings Guards of Ascent Greece.
2007-08-30 03:57:10 · answer #4 · answered by Eyerish 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"The whole universe conspires to fulfill the desires of your heart."
"A person's only obligation is to realize his personal destiny."
-both from The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
"What is essential is invisible to the eye."
-The Little Prince by Antoine Marie de Saint-Exupery
2007-08-30 04:05:43 · answer #5 · answered by svit-kona 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Philosophy, in a nutshell, is an oak waiting to grow.
2007-08-30 03:33:41 · answer #6 · answered by thrag 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Magnanimous is the man that is great and knows he is great. Saintly is the man that is great and knows he is small.
G.K. Chesterton
Good book: Mendeleyev's dream - Not what you would think.
2007-08-30 03:55:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
"To be or not to be that is the question"
"Different strokes, for different folks."
"Don't trouble, trouble, if trouble doesn't trouble you."
2007-08-30 03:35:49 · answer #8 · answered by michelebaruch 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋